Ed_Formerly_of_Roch

When has this ever stopped anyone here on this site! There's so much expertise here on this site, far more than the coaching staff possesses. Just ask them.

I'm sure it also doesn't help that they are $53 mil over the cap too, only team worse off is the Saints which there's an entire thread on that one. So hows that work out when the dead cap is a smaller number than the Cap hit if you cut the guy?? Fletcher Cox: Dead cap: $21 mil, Cap hit $24 mil. where as: Wentz: Dead cap: $59 mil, Cap hit $35 mil I assume if they cut hit they'd take the whole $59 mil cap hit?

And Irsay made Ralph look like a spend thrift, well at least the old man did. WRT to cap saving I see Brees is listed a cap hit of $36 mil and dead cap of $22.6. For the cap saving do you basically subtract the dead from the hit?

So are the baselines like some type of bran scans or something that is actual hard data that isn't up to a person to tell you what you want to hear? The one thing I read last night talked about symptom free, and headache free all things that a person could just give the answer they want you to hear. Where as if it was some type of brain scans are the baseline, that would be hard to fake out. I have no idea so just trying to understand what is required.

Yes I get that but it's not different than me going to the doctor and he asks me does anything bother you and I tell him no, meanwhile I'm in extreme pain. A doc could take an X-ray and tell someone, no your leg's not healed enough to play this week, but don't think there's any test you can be given to determine if the person really has a headache or not if the person says they don't. Does it make sense for Mahomes to lie about it absolutely not, but many an athlete would lie if it meant they play or not play in a playoff game. I'm sure he could be fined or maybe even suspended by the league for lying about his medical condition, but not something easily proven either.

I believe it does as I use to hear my boss from about 3 offices away dictating on his Samsung phone blah blah blah (period) La la la (question mark) or whatever. I don't do it often enough to bother, instead I just go back and manually insert all the punctuation I want/need.

I've done voice to text a fair amount too and understand the lack of punctuation. But what you can do before hitting send, go back and manually proofread and just add in periods, paragraphs etc. If you don't have the time to do that, then probably best not bother even texting as sorry, but doubt anyone has the ability to actually read that mess.

Even if they said he did have a concussion, is there anything really to stop him from faking the results. Supposedly they need to be concussion symptom free, headache free, be able speak clearly. All things that someone wanting to make sure they play the following week would seem to be easy to fake. Understand they are messing with their own well being, likely if a regular season game, they may admit, yes I still have a slight headache. But for a playoff game could see most players faking it and telling everyone, I feel fine, 100%! Recall the Bills 1st SB, in the last minute or so, Kelly took a hit that was bad enough forced the Bills to use a TO so Kelly could figure out where he was. Likely these days he'd have never finished the game. If they hadn't needed to call that TO, may have been able to use that extra time instead at the end to get a couple extra plays in and gotten closer for the kick.

I was kind of thinking the same. Actually kind of small looking all around. Wife looks about the same size.

Corrected!!

Good God I stopped reading after the 3rd line. There is something called a carriage return!

I do wonder if Brees problem yesterday was still the rib injury. Granted his arm was looking weak all season, but yesterday looked real bad. Watching on TV could actually see the difference in speed between his passes and Allen's as to fitting into tight windows. The one good thing about Brady winning yesterday is it makes it easy for me to decide who to root for in next weeks NFC championship game.

He also was worth having the first half of the season as there was a lot of new players on the roster on the D line and Epenesa was still a rookie with no training camp or pre season. He likely helped the new guys learn the system quicker.

When you look at the overall success rates of draft picks, I'm sure you can find the same level of lower and undrafted players on every team. I will agree it is rather unusual to see them all in one position group.

Exactly, not only assistants, but just starting a month behind everyone else.

Just read that McVay is not totally happy with Goff. Maybe a trade of Goff, Woods, and a couple of picks for Watson?

Yeah same with GB, Rodgers doesn't have that many years left. Even Seattle, Wilson is getting up there in age. Would be amazed if he was traded within the conference, would seem dumb particularly when you add in all the young QB's in the AFC, Mahomes,, Allen, Mayfield, Herbert, Burrows, & Jackson. Throw in Lawrence in Jax, no need to add more competition against yourself. Look at the NFL, who do you have that's young and great. A few boarderline, may become great, but still need to show more.

A couple rather amazing things we all saw in yesterdays game: Josh goes back to pass, falls down gets up scrambles some more and still completes the pass. How many others could do that? One or two off target snaps Lamar still handled/caught cleanly. Then you had the one that went by him at about ground level in the first quarter, he picked it up cleanly on the run and still was able to run away from pursuit and throw it away out of bounds for no loss. Then the snap at the end of the 3rd quarter, again fielded it on the run cleanly, after that things went down hill with intentional ground and a concussion. But even still how many QB's could field those balls cleanly on the run. Maybe K Murray and R Wilson would utilize the shortstop skills to make that play, but very few others. Most others would either just dive on it or if tried to field cleanly would likely muff it and end up with a live ball. Both were amazing in the that respect. Problem for Lamar is that's not the skill you want to mostly be renowned for.

Yeah did look like he went backwards some. May be the stats are based off where first touched?? No idea?

Back in the 90's they also didn't have as large of a fieldhouse (fieldhouse back then was smaller with lower ceiling) and I believe two full size outdoor fields next to it.

Johnson has got credited with a 101 yard return tying the post season record. While there's no yard markers in the endzone which makes to tough to judge, looking at the replays to me it looks like he was more than one yard deep. I do wonder if in a couple days as they go through and update stats, I wonder if it might get changed to a 102 yard return thus setting the record.

Actually as I thought about it some more I realized my response was not 100 correct. I stated: The opportunity to defer or not defer their choice and the choices are: (a) to kickoff or receive (b) The choice of goal his team will defend. What you really have is three choices: The opportunity to defer or not defer their choice and the choices are: (a) to kickoff or (b) receive or (c) The choice of goal his team will defend. There are really three choices you can pick from though of the first two, one is kind of inclusive of the other I also recall a more recent instance almost think it might have even been a playoff game where the player went out and stated "We'll defend this goal" rather than deferring

I'm about 95% certain the way it works is as follows At the pre-game coin toss whichever team wins the toss gets : The opportunity to defer or not defer their choice and the choices are: (a) to kickoff or receive (b) The choice of goal his team will defend. Which ever team loses the coin toss gets to make the same choice at the beginning of the 3rd quarter (kind of anti-climatic so it's not talked about much) What that means is if the Bills chose which end to defend, the the Ravens would say OK we'll receive the ball. Then at the beginning of the 3rd quarter, since the Ravens didn't get the choice pre-game they now get to decide what they want to do so they could easily and likely chose to again receive the ball. So the Ravens would have received the ball to both begin the game and 3rd quarter There would have been the option at the 3rd quarter for the Ravens to instead make the choice of which end to defend, then the Bills could have elected to receive, but the odds of Baltimore making that choice is low. What did happen was pregame the Bills made the choice to kick off, so then Baltimore got to decide which end to defend. Then the beginning of Q3 the Bills elected to receive so again Baltimore got to choose the end they wanted.

Earlier in the week I also had my doubts about the Bills winning this game, but as the week went on started to feel better as so many seemed to be picking the Ravens so felt the Bills could feed off that. The other thing was while the Ravens were likely as hot as the Bills, they beat some pretty weak teams, Cowboys, Giants, Jax, Cleveland, & Bengals total of 28 wins. In that same span the Bills beat teams that had won 33 games. The overall schedule for the AFC North was pretty weak, think the same reasons the Steelers went from 11-0 to 1-5 On the Interception was kind of weird as took Al Michaels awhile to call the Int. Watching on TV thought I saw a Bills player catch it, but wasn't sure, waiting to hear it on TV. Seems players rarely will take knee on Int's in the end zone WRT Wind Thought on the last FG miss by Bass, he played it outside and was counting on the wind to push it back, but the ball seemed to just go straight. Was thinking if I were kicking, think I'd just aim to kick everything down the center as who knows what the wind will and won't do. Tough song to figure out this week!

One of the things that bothered me about this post right from the beginning hat nothing to do with whether McD was a great, good, or even a poor coach. What bothered me was the list of "elite coaches" Kyle Shanahan??? He's had one winning season, other three seasons he's finished in 4th, 3rd, 4th place Think the OP has confused his success as an OC with HC success. Mike Tomlin Personally I've never been all that impressed with him won a SB in his second season likely with much of Cowlers roster, lost another in his 4th season and made it to one other conference championship game. Even with a franchise QB all those seasons, often struggled, last season with Big Ben out he finished 8-8. Once Ben retires unless the Steelers get lucky and somehow find a comparable replacement, I'll be shocked if within 3 seasons he's not fired due to a losing record. Seem to recall him making some dumb moves in games too over the years. Maybe his problem is simply being in the same place too long and has gone stale. Even Sean Peyton, like to see how he does without Drew Brees before calling him truly elite. On the other hand the Detroit Lions even with a very good to elite QB, no coach has been able to win there.